A BYU professor once taught that Shakespeare used the simplest language to communicate his most important messages. Do you think that is an accurate statement? I wondered if this theory extends to the word of God? (Perhaps that's where William got the idea.) After comparing a handful of examples, I found some fundamental differences between the most important statements from Bill Shakespeare's works and the holy scriptures. Bill's pithy expressions of truth always seemed to be in the form of witty comebacks. God's words naturally stood on their own. Bill's axioms, while self-evident and universally accepted, seemed context specific. When God taught, He used small words and familiar concepts to express complex and situation-diverse principles. While Bill invented maxims couched in mostly-fictional stories to lend his truths credibility, God didn't require adages to convince His readers. God just laid down the truth, like a boss. ...
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